Re: Linux 2.5.59

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:28:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Updates to sparc, alpha, ppc64, fbdev, XFS, AGP, kbuild, arm...
> Likely the last release by me in a while, but Andrew & co can hold the 
> fort..

struct thread_info is shared with the stack, not struct task_struct.
False positives have been seen.


-- wli


===== arch/i386/kernel/irq.c 1.24 vs edited =====
--- 1.24/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c	Thu Oct 31 07:28:34 2002
+++ edited/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c	Thu Jan 16 20:39:53 2003
@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@
 
 		__asm__ __volatile__("andl %%esp,%0" :
 					"=r" (esp) : "0" (8191));
-		if (unlikely(esp < (sizeof(struct task_struct) + 1024))) {
+		if (unlikely(esp < (sizeof(struct thread_info) + 1024))) {
 			printk("do_IRQ: stack overflow: %ld\n",
-				esp - sizeof(struct task_struct));
+				esp - sizeof(struct thread_info));
 			dump_stack();
 		}
 	}